Panama is the Museum

A network center encouraging museum visitors to explore the relationship between Panama and the world using interactive information, live feedback and connections with virtual and physical environments.

The exhibit is a large, enveloping space with glowing light, color, and texture creating a riot of information to greet the visitor. It has overlapping rows of large panels and monitors displaying a mosaic of imagery. Skewed at different angles in rows contouring the wall surfaces on the right and left, the monitors' small, glowing interactive screens hang on flexible arms attached to the walls between the panels.

The panels and screens entice the visitor to discover and dive into the information they provide on Panama and its relationship to the rest of the world. Included is a live projection of a webcam within the Panama Effect, connecting the Panama is the Museum to other areas of the museum, and to virtual visitors at partnering museums via the web.